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I set up tracking all my bank statements, pay slips, Costco (and other multi-category store) receipts, and other things in Fava (beancount's webui) over the last month. I spent way too much time developing a plugin to help categorizing transactions, making a full api and python scripts as well to let AI make edits for me (dry runs before clearing). I stumbled upon Maybe (https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe) and the community fork (https://github.com/we-promise/sure) a couple days ago and almost invested too much time to migrate to it. That project still doesn't have split transactions. A fresh intuitive UI is great but Beancount's format is so simple it's hard to beat.

I remember only a few days ago this was a hosted version of https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe It looks like they're pivoting into corporate finance tracking which seems like a good move but still a bit jarring as I was curious to give this a go! Existing customers - what comms have you received? I don't really want to self-host this even though I might. Before I commit, what are some alternatives? The UI seemed very compelling

Seems like a reasonably standard Rails app, and they are kind enough to already have a Dockerfile, compose file, and instructions for it: https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/blob/v0.5.0/docs/host... Ironically, as documentation for humans these files are good; as a separate signal that Cursor wrote a finance tracking app is also helpful https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/blob/v0.5.0/.cursor/r...

Checkout the following for inspiration: https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe https://ghostfol.io/en/start https://figgwealth.com Good luck

I switched from Next.js/React to Rails for my side projects due to JS ecosystem fatigue. Anecdotally, I've noticed some people making the same move. The open-source finance app Maybe is one that pops up on a lot of searches. imo Rails has been having a bit of a revival ever since v7 introduced a cleaner approach to front end development with Hotwire (specifically, Turbo and Stimulus) to get SPA-like behavior with relatively little effort. What I love about modern Rails is that it's an evolving framework that is still anchored to a consistent vision for developer productivity. Now with 8.0 having just been released, Rails is increasing built-in support for deploying outside managed providers like AWS. I can't speak for whether it's going to see a resurgence among big companies other than famous users like Shopify, but I can't see myself us

How does this compare to Maybe [1] [2]? [1] https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38973409

This reminds me a lot of calculators I use for FIRE, ie the ones shown here [0]. Perhaps I should try Causal for personal use as well as for business use. I've also seen Maybe [1] for personal finances, which looks good too. [0] https://engaging-data.com/early-retirement-calculators-and-t... [1] https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe

The founder of Maybe[0] oss’d it recently and they’re working towards making it easy to self host. Seems like it could end up being a fairly modern SaaS level open core alternative. 0 - https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe

And doing so could end up making it accelerate, possibly making the unviable business eventually viable: https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe